Life Before Facebook

Sep 10, 2010

Have you seen the trailer for next month's movie The Social Network, about the founding of Facebook? The tagline says it all, "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies." Juicy! It got me thinking about life before Facebook, and how one little social networking website has — in only six years — permeated society so fully. No one knew how badly we wanted to know (and tell!) everything about each other until Facebook came along, and now we can hardly imagine our lives without it. I'll be the first to admit I'm addicted — I don't remember what life was like without access to photos of my first love's family, hourly updates from people I was barely even friends with in college, and the re-assurance that, should I ever feel lonely, I actually have hundreds of friends, all tallied and organized nicely for me. I'm logged on all day long, and I'm hoping I'm not alone. So tell me:

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